Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Edinburgh

Another weekend, another European capital! My early childhood was spent in Scotland & I've always wanted to return. Edinburgh is a gorgeous city with stunning architecture. Regrettably I didn't get time to draw the famous castle but I'll go back.

At the Modern Art Museum I was struck by the paintings of Anne Redpath. Terrific colours & almost naive forms. There was a pertinent quote from her about exaggerating architecture.

Along The Royal Mile.

We visited the National Gallery of Scotland to see 'Turner and Italy'. He was hugely influenced by Italian landscape & art, making four trips to the country in his lifetime, resulting in dozens of paintings & countless sketches. On one trip he filled 23 sketchbooks! Several were on view. They were packed with exquiste little studies of landscape & architecture. You can browse Turner's sketchbooks in the Tate's online collection.

hey!i stumbled upon your blog while googling edinburgh and ended up checking out most of your archives. i especially love your city sketches and your houses look exactly the way i wish i could draw them myself:)that's pretty much all i wanted to say...cheers,anja

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